For most people today, the word Chechnya immediately brings to mind Ramzan Kadyrov, the authoritarian leader who governs the region as a loyal vassal of Vladimir Putin. It evokes images of a turbulent ...

It begins as the most ordinary of stories and ends with three women who are trapped in a small apartment in a country I can’t name. If they are found here, they will be in danger, but they have ...

Relatives of two brothers who fled homophobic persecution in Chechnya — but were later captured — were detained and interrogated by authorities, according to an LGBTQ rights group. Last month, 20-year ...

Oscar nominee David France's startling depiction of the courageous effort to save Chechnya's queer community from state-sanctioned persecution was denounced by the government and went viral: "People ...

In December 1994, Russian troops launched a brutal and eventually unsuccessful military campaign against Chechen rebels, effectively beginning the First Chechen War. After losing the first and winning ...

LONDON -- Czech officials have proposed changing the country's full name -- the two-word "Czech Republic" -- into a single word with just three syllables: Czechia. The Foreign Ministry said a one-word ...

Russia unleashes a heavy bombing campaign. Cities are reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are killed. Russia did that twice in Chechnya in... Russia's wars in Chechnya offer a grim warning of ...

Welcome To Chechnya, directed by David France, documents one of the worst, and least widely-known, humanitarian crises of the last 15 years: The systematic purging of all LGBTQIA+ people from Chechnya ...

* Islam flourishing in Russia's Chechnya * Chechen leader drives Muslim revival * Chechnya encourages customs that breach Russian law By Amie Ferris-Rotman GROZNY, Russia, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Adam, 52, ...

In 2017, the Chechen Republic targeted all gay people and lesbians in a country-wide “gay hunt.” Its tactics and its atrocities are noted with precision in the poignant documentary, Welcome to ...

Senior U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials tell NBC News that there has been recent intelligence reporting that Osama bin Laden is financing the Chechen operation in Dagestan and may be ...